The Fall of Great Moravia

Who Was Buried in Grave H153 at Pohansko near Břeclav?

Jiri Machacek, Martin Wihoda (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2019
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-38313-5 (ISBN)

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This volume focuses on a nobleman’s grave found in a ninth-century building near Pohansko, an important centre of Great Moravia, to reconsider the wider frameworks of Moravian power, society, and culture.

The excavated foundations of a ninth-century sacral building in the northeastern suburb of Pohansko, an important centre of Great Moravia, and especially the find of the nobleman’s grave H 153, has focused scholarly attention onto the nature of the Mojmirid state and the reasons behind its sudden disintegration. In this volume, a group of archaeologists, historians and a natural scientist aim to incorporate this remarkable discovery into the wider frameworks of Moravian power, society, and culture, and thereby arrive at some surprising conclusions.

Contributors: are Stefan Eichert, David Kalhous, Pavel Kouřil, Jiří Macháček, Vladimír Sládek, Ivo Štefan, Martin Wihoda, Roman Zehetmayer.

Jiří Macháček is Professor of Medieval Archaeology and the Head of the Department of Archaeology and Museology at Masaryk University, Brno . He has published on medieval archaeology and computer applications on archaeology. Martin Wihoda is Professor of Medieval History at Masaryk University, Brno. His research is focused on eastern Europe in the early and high Middle Ages.

Preface

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

1 The Great Moravian Rotunda at Pohansko and an Osteobiographical Profile of Its Founder

Jiří Macháček and Vladimír Sládek

2 The Austrian Danube Region in the Decades Around 900

Roman Zehetmayer

3 The Magyars and Their Contribution to the Collapse and Fall of Great Moravia or Allies, Neighbours, Enemies

Pavel Kouřil

4 The Second Life of the Mojmirid Dukes

Martin Wihoda

5 Graves, Churches, Culture and Texts: The Processes of Christianisation in the Early Middle Ages and Their Social and Cultural Context

David Kalhous

6 “Founder Tombs” in Early Medieval Carantania: A Survey

Stefan Eichert

7 Great Moravia, the Beginnings of Přemyslid Bohemia and the Problem of Cultural Change

Ivo Štefan

8 Conclusion: Who Was the Man Buried in Grave H153 in Pohansko and What Happened to Him and His Family at the End of Great Moravia?

Jiří Macháček

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Erscheinungsdatum	01.08.2019
Reihe/Serie	East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; 54
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	561 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-38313-1 / 9004383131
ISBN-13	978-90-04-38313-5 / 9789004383135
Zustand	Neuware